Button attachment.



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PATENT OFFICE.

BUTTON ATTACHNI E NT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 779,478, dated January 10, 1905.

Application iled January 12, 1904. Serial No. 188,719.

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that L ARTHUR H. Horn, a'citizen of the United States, residing at Asbury Park, in the county of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Button Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention aims to provide a simple holder .device to be used in connection with the ordinary headed button used upon collars, cuffs, and the neckbands of shirts. As is well known, the button does not afford a reliable securing means because of the tendency of the parts to which the button is applied to separate, more especially so when such parts are unstarched. The attachment which is provided coperates with the head of the vbutton to positively prevent detachment of the parts designed to be held together thereby.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for efecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings.

While the essential and characteristic features of the invention are susceptible of modication, still the preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view showing the application of the invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the attachment applied to a button only. Fig. 3 is a detail view, enlarged, of the attachment alone.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The invention is illustrated as applied to the cuffs of a shirt, and the button l will be seen to be of a type at present in common use. The said button comprises the base 2, the shank 8, and the head 4.

The holder which constitutes my invention is of a peculiar form and is constructed, preferably, of a single piece of spring-wire bent about intermediate the ends to form spaced arms 5. The spaced arms 5 are disposed in approximately paralleling relation and con- 5o stitute engaging means cooperating with the head of the button. The wire from which the attachment is formed is bent so as town form a spring-loop 6 at the point of folding thereof, said loop holding the arms 5 in a 55 normally coadjacent position. The arms 5 have their ends diverged, as shown at 7, and the diverged ends 7 are recurved toward each other, as shown at 8, to afford a iiared entrance 9, facilitating the engagement of the device with the button. After the recurved portions 8 within the flared mouth 9 have been formed the extremities of the wire are extended in opposite directions, so as to be brought into proximity with the arms 5, of which they form a continuation. The above admits of ready disengagement of the shank of the button, since a iiared inlet-mouth is formed as well a iiared exit-mouth. The manner of forming the ends 7 of the arms 5 virtually provides a mouth, which aids greatly in eecting a ready engagement of the holder with the shank of the button. The arms 5 are provided with bulged or outwardly-deflected portions l() about intermediate their ends, which bulged portions are of curved form and receive the round shank of the button on engagement of the attachment therewith. It will be understood that the holder is engaged with the button by giving same a longitudinal movement, the shank of the button passing through the flared mouth 9 and moving along the arms until received within the bulged or deflected portions 10 of the arms, the latter serving to position the attachment from accidental displacement.

The attachment may be made in different sizes to accord with the size of buttons and may be made of gold, silver, polished steel, or any other kind of wire of suitable finish.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- An attachment for buttons comprising a single length of spring-wire bent about intermediate its ends to form a spring-loop and spaced spring-arms extended from the said loop in paralleling relation, said arms being outwardly deflected about intermediate the ends thereof to form a seat portion to receive in opposite directions into proximity7 with the the shank of a button, the end portions ofthe springnrms to form a flared outlet-mouth. IO

paralleling arms being diverged and recul-ved In testimony whereof I aiiX my signature in inwardly Within the space between the dipresence of two Witnesses.

5 verged portions to forni a flared inlet-mouth ARTHUR H. HOPE. [L si to facilitate the engagement oi the device, the Titnessesz recurved portions being disposed in contact CLAUDE O. GUERIN,

and having the extremities thereof projected l ALONZO G. STEWART. 

